Ginuwine, Band of Horses and Chrisette Michele are your top concert choices this week
Ginuwine
Saddle up for a wild night with one of the most revered R&B artists of the 1990s: That’s right, Ginuwine is back. But this American hero (real name Elgin Lumpkin, no joke), best known for his 1996 hit, “Pony,” never really went away. If you want to brush up on some of his best work before Friday night’s show at the Voodoo Lounge, go back to the rest of that seminal first album, Ginuwine…the Bachelor, or his 1999 follow-up, 100% Ginuwine. Hell, pick up 2013’s A Ginuwine Christmas, on which his reimagined version of “12 Days of Christmas” will put you in the mood for the holidays — and maybe something else, too.
8 p.m. Friday, December 16, at Voodoo Lounge, Harrah’s North Kansas City, 1 Riverboat Dr
Band of Horses
with Local Natives, Warpaint, Jaenki
For the final night of radio station 96.5 KRBZ’s annual Christmas takeover of the Midland, a host of admirable electro-pop bands has been assembled. First up: Band of Horses, the 10-year-old band that — despite lead singer Ben Bridwell’s rather whiny lilt — gets by on a propensity for meaty guitar jams and beautiful, elegiac harmonies. What Los Angeles’ Local Natives lacks in sunshine on its latest album, Sunlit Youth, it makes up for in pervasive, moody, very hook-heavy ennui. Warpaint, also from L.A., is moody in a different, sexier way, embedding a few waves of mysticism and goth-rock into guitar-shredding gloom. Kansas City’s own Jaenki rounds out the night.
6:30 p.m. Saturday, December 17, at Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland, 1228 Main
Chrisette Michele
Chrisette Michele is in love, and she wants the whole world to know it. On her latest album, Milestone, the R&B singer highlights what sounds like the real thing with tracks such as “Unbreakable,” “Soulmate” and “Equal,” and damned if any single girl listening won’t get a little relationship envy. (Michele’s fiancé and former Motown Records manager, Doug “Biggs” Ellison, is also credited as executive producer on Milestone.) That’s not to say the record is all heart-shaped emojis; especially enjoyable is the moment she takes to throw shade to the haters on “These Stones.” For the most part, though, Michele seems to revel in the joy she has found. Wednesday night at the Midland, join the love fest.
8 p.m. Wednesday, December 21, at Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland, 1228 Main
Central Standard Holiday Concert
7 p.m. Saturday, December 17
Folly, 300 W. 12th St.
Milky Chance, Marian Hill, Banks, more
6:30 p.m. Thursday, December 15
Midland, 1228 Main
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15
Julie Major Trio
7:30 p.m., B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
DJ Nasty Orange
10 p.m., Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Bane Union, Mind Galaxy, Myco
8 p.m., Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club,
3402 Main
WindSync, Wind Quintet
7 p.m., Folly, 300 W. 12th St.
Matt Hopper Trio
5:30 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Guitar Elation
9 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Perkins, Spaits & Strait
12:30 a.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Supersuckers, Jesse Dayton & Gallows Bound
8 p.m., Knuckleheads, 2517 Rochester
The Blackbird Revue
7 p.m., RecordBar, 1520 Grand
RA the Rugged Man
7 p.m., Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16
Junebug & the Porchlights
9 p.m., B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
Shapes
9 p.m., the Brick, 1727 McGee
Blackfoot Gypsies
8 p.m., Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Mountain Sprout
8 p.m., Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main
Tim Whitmer Quartet
5:30 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Steve Lambert Quartet
8:30 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Boogaloo 7
10 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Atlantic Express
8:30 p.m., Knuckleheads, 2517 Rochester
Jimmie Bratcher
8:30 p.m., Knuckleheads, 2517 Rochester
Josh Garrels
8 p.m., Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Third Eye Blind, the Strumbellas, Judah & the Lion, more
6:30 p.m., Midland, 1228 Main
The Philistines, the Sluts, Schwervon
8 p.m., RecordBar, 1520 Grand
Sky Smeed, Signal Ridge
6 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Toughies, the Roseline, Heidi Lynne Gluck
10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Punk Rock Prom
7 p.m., Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
The Northern Empty, Root and Stem
7 p.m., Tank Room, 1813 Grand
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17
Mama Ray’s Jazz Meets Blues Jam
2 p.m., B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
Four Fried Chickens & a Coke
9 p.m., B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
Cornerstone Dub
8 p.m., Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence
April Mist, Damp, Warforged, Gravelord
7:30 p.m., Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main
OJT
6 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Steve Lambert Quartet
9 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Hard Candy Christmas featuring Sunny Sweeney, Courtney Patton and more
8 p.m., Knuckleheads, 2517 Rochester
Sky Smeed with Old Sound
8:30 p.m., Knuckleheads, 2517 Rochester
Mark & the Sharks
9 p.m., Knuckleheads, 2517 Rochester
Emmaline Twist, the Electric Lungs, more
7 p.m., RecordBar, 1520 Grand
The Sluts, Arc Flash, Macemouth, Pale Tongue
10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
California Voodoo Holiday Party
7 p.m., Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
Vela, Verbose, Munster Moon
7 p.m., Tank Room, 1813 Grand
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18
The Confessors
6 p.m., B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
Michael Pagan Trio
5 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Stan Kessler’s Playground
9:30 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Wonderfuzz
10 p.m., Kelly’s, 500 Westport Rd.
Old Dominion
8 p.m., Midland, 1228 Main
Old Firm Casuals, more
8 p.m., RecordBar, 1520 Grand
Kick, Varma Cross, Oktopous, more
6 p.m., Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
Black Mariah Theater, Hot Club KC, Black Stacey
7 p.m., Tank Room, 1813 Grand
MONDAY, DECEMBER 19
Mark Lowrey
Noon, Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Molly Hammer
5:30 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
The Leading Average
10 p.m., Kelly’s, 500 Westport Rd.
Soul Sessions
7 p.m., RecordBar, 1520 Grand
A La Mode
7 p.m., Tank Room, 1813 Grand
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20
Danielle Nicole Band
7 p.m., B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
Perkins, Spaits & Freeman
Noon, Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Sequel Quartet
10:30 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21
Shinetop Jr.
7 p.m., B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
Natalie Bates Trio
5:30 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
OJT
9 p.m., Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Winter Dance Party with Stone Cutters Union Big Band, the Band that Saved the World, and more
7:30 p.m., Knuckleheads, 2517 Rochester
Bob Walkenhorst & Friends
6 p.m., RecordBar, 1520 Grand
Afton Showcase
5 p.m., Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
